Bug 1346278 (CVE-2016-5434)

Summary:	CVE-2016-5434 pacman: denial of service flaw in libalpm
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Martin Prpič <mprpic>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	i, zbyszek
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2019-06-08 02:54:54 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:	1346279
Bug Blocks:

Description Martin Prpič 2016-06-14 12:36:12 UTC

An out-of-bounds read flaw resulting in an infinite loop was found in pacman's (the Arch package manager) signature parser.

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/526
https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2016-June/021148.html

Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2016-06-14 12:36:27 UTC

Created pacman tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1346279]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:54:54 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.